Netvibes is a French subsidiary of Dassault Group that previously ran a

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service offering a

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and feed reader.

History

2005–2012

Founded in 2005 by

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, the company provided software for personalized dashboards for real-time monitoring, social analytics, knowledge sharing, and decision support.

2012–2025

On February 9, 2012,

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announced the acquisition of Netvibes. As of 2024, the Netvibes brand comprises three French software companies acquired by Dassault Systèmes: * Exalead: founded in 2000 by François Bourdoncle, the company provided search platforms and search-based applications for consumer and business users. On June 9, 2010, Dassault Systèmes acquired the company. * Netvibes: the company provided software for personalized dashboards for real-time monitoring, social analytics, knowledge sharing, and decision support. * Proxem: Founded in 2007 by François-Régis Caumartin, the company provided AI-powered semantic processing software and services. On June 23, 2020, Dassault Systèmes acquired Proxem and integrated its technology into the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform to complement its information intelligence applications.

Closure

Dassault Systèmes announced in April 2025 that Netvibes.com would retire its standalone service on June 2, 2025. The company itself continues to operate from within Dassault, but the Netvibes.com service was closed.

Activities

*Brand monitoring – to track clients, customers and competitors across media sources all in one place, analyze live results with third party reporting tools, and provide media monitoring dashboards for brand clients. *E-reputation management – to visualize real-time online conversations and social activity online feeds, and track new trending topics. *Product marketing – to create interactive product microsites, with drag-and-drop publishing interface. *Community portals – to engage online communities *Personalized workspaces – to gather all essential company updates to support specific divisions (e.g. sales, marketing, human resources) and localizations. The software was a multi-lingual

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-based start page or

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. It was organized into tabs, with each tab containing user-defined modules. Built-in Netvibes modules included an RSS/

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feed reader, local weather forecasts, a calendar supporting iCal, bookmarks, notes, to-do lists, multiple searches, support for

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, IMAP4 email as well as several

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providers including

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, Yahoo! Mail,

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, and AOL Mail, Box.net web storage, Delicious, Meebo,

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photos,

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support with a built-in audio player, and several others.
A page could be personalized further through the use of existing themes or by creating personal theme. Customized tabs, feeds and modules can be shared with others individually or via the Netvibes Ecosystem. For privacy reasons, only modules with publicly available content could be shared.

References

External links

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